The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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Jules Renard
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About Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt and is acclaimed for Poil de carotte, a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood. His other famous works include, Les Histoires Naturelles, Le Plaisir de rompre, and the posthumously published Huit Jours à la campagne.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jules RenardFailure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.